Last Modified on April 10, 2005
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This photo shows probably an example of 31 IAP, captured by Germans probably
at Kaunas air base at the beginning of the war.
Its characteristcs are:
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short-nosed, without slats;
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without sliding canopy;
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without radio devices;
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painted green with light blue undersurfaces ( not uniform; as on other
aircrafts, it looks that both colors on the metal parts are lighter than
on the wooden ones);
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unusually curved demarcation line between green and light blue on the rear
fuselage;
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plain red stars, probably in six positions (wings and fuselage);
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white digit 1 on the rudder;
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probably orange (?) tips of wings and tail, with a thin white demarcation
line on the tail surface;
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silver propeller blades with partially black painted rear surface (as standard);
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no gunsight (probably removed by Soviets while abandoning the aircraft
to the enemy forces; before this, the gunsight should be present);
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overall clean look.
from Barbarossa victims